Hola Pixelpeeps!

I have not updated the website this year at all, as I've been running a little experiment just using the inworld SL group tools and twitter to communicate directly to my main online audience.

Suffice to say, I'll be returning to producing regular website updates from now on. Stay tuned also for some new song downloads from SL Live performances.

Good News: Beato-san & Basso-san have been through major upgrades over the last few months, and new tunes are in the works. My audio system is now fully migrated over to Win 7 x64 and I finally nailed that annoying BSOD (Bad ZoneALarm!). I also have some Ninjam's planned with Noma & Hathead (soon as I get the system setup again) and I'm developing a new version of my  Bluestronica Immersive Audiovisual experience "SynaesthAsia".

Bad News: May was a bad month in terms of health and I got hit by a couple of things out of the blue. The latest was a bad flu bug picked up from Baby Komuso, which hit me as I was just recovering from something else. I woke up this morning (ooo...song!) and it feels like I have broken the back of the flu (that was the worst week+ in a long time, though I still played 2 gigs) but now I have to deal with the eardrum I think I blew due to clearing my head. So for the moment all gig are on hold till I am back in playing condition...so stay tuned!

See you in the Bitstream, kt

Thu 17th 6pm slt Triumph Cove http://slurl.com/secondlife/Triumph/167/128/22

Thu 17th 9pm slt Musicians Lair http://slurl.com/secondlife/Supremacy/188/160/22

Fri 18th 7pm slt Giverny http://slurl.com/secondlife/Giverny/181/154/27

Fri 18th 9pm slt DrJohns http://slurl.com/secondlife/Isere/194/147/351

Sat 20th 6pm slt Miles Island Slurl tba

Sat 20th 8pm slt Up The Creek http://slurl.com/secondlife/Houses/87/160/22

Free! Poor Boy (Extended Bluestronica Cut) now available @ http://tinyurl.com/yjjq5tv Live SL cut, 10 min 18.6mb 256kbps

From the cotton fields to the asteroid belts, a raw improvisational elektrik koolaid space bluestronica enhanced version of poor boy, recorded live in sl on the12th Dec 2009 at "Up The Creek" club.

Pay what you like in L$ or paypal to paul@sonicviz.com

Cu in the bitstream,
kt
http://music.sonicviz.com

Thu 19th 6pm slt Triumph Cove SLURL

Thu 19th 9pm slt Musicians Lair SLURL

Fri 20th 7pm slt Giverny SLURL

Fri 20th 9pm slt DrJohns SLURL

Sat 21st 8pm slt Up The Creek SLURL

I was hoping it would last me to the end of the 2009, but today my 3.5 year old Laptop finally died, the gpu fried again.

I'm down to my main work desktop machine only, and will have to radically scale back what I can do with the VW music for a while.

Budget juggling income adjustment estimation time = replacement... or not.

I may be able to play some acoustic sets, but due to the fact my electric act relies on a cpu heavy load to drive beato-san and basso-sans brains I'll have to bench them for a while.

Running intensive real time high quality audio applications, streaming audio applications, audio recording applications, and an SL client on the same machine is not recommended.

I blew my laptop up the first time doing this, and that was 3 years ago when I was not running much in the way of AI assisted music at all.

Onwards...upwards...and sideways!

Owls. The first song in a new endless album concept and new music genre dubbed "Komusophere". Owls is 256kbps 8.39mb download. It is specially optimised for a spatialised headphone listening experience. Close your eyes, and LISTEN;-)

Go to the song page to listen (right arrow) or download (down arrow to download)

What is Komusophere music genre? A sonicvisual blend of World music, Natural Soundscapes, Chill, Ambient, Downtempo, Groovera, Psybient and whatever else comes to mind when composing...

New songs will be released on a regular basis. Stay tuned.

This pay-what-you-like-ware. If you like it please consider paying something to support the ongoing project. All songs will be pay-what-you-like-ware. Register as a free member to download more exclusive free tunes from Sonicviz and alternative bluesmeister Komuso Tokugawa.

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License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Song Image by Filthy Fluno aka Jeffrey Lipsky

Live Bitstream Boogie Blues in Metaplace

Anytime...anywhere...anyplace!

Catch the hottest live blues trio in the Metaverse for a real time musical collaboration across the internet from three countries in full 2.5D isometric glory!

Komuso Tokugawa on vocals, harmonica and guitar live from Tokyo
Hathead Rickenbacker on piano live from Toronto
Noma Falta live from Atlanta on Bass/Vocals

05/22/09 17:00 pst/pdt at Alphaville Metaplace

The First Tokyo barcamp was on last weekend.

I'd never been to a barcamp, so it was interesting to see the self organising presentation system at work.

After lunch I decided to do a little presentation on "The Future of Music". Check the video out for my take on where I see some of this going, as a result of my prototyping of the Future of Music in Virtual Worlds such as SecondLife and Metaplace.

Where Music World And Virtual World Collide

Start Time: Friday, April 10, 2009 at 11:00am End Time: Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 7:00pm Location: Harajuku Design Fiesta Gallery (2nd Floor) City/Town: Tokyo, Japan

Post event report on the Metaverse Music Blog here.

Check out the new Bitstream Boogie Ustream channel for some live action Alternative Bitstream Boogie.

Sign up on Ustream to get your own id and subscribe to the weekly scheduled event.

For the moment I'll just do one a week, and maybe expand the schedule if it gets some followers.

See you in the bitstream, kt